The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-10-26

Hiscock and l.. p. Morton. 1t is re-
ported that it will be Blaine paper,
and that Thomas Mast, the famous
caricaturist, will be connected with il.
He has determined to support the re-
publican candidate, whomsoever he
may be.
THE dedication ceremonies of the
Shakespeare memorial fountain, pre-
scented by George w. Childs of Phila-
delphia, at Stratford-upon-Avon last
week must have been particularly
narrowing to the feelings of Ignatius
Donnelly. If he has the courage of his
convictions Mr. Donnelly will cross the
water and paste the name of Bacon
over that of Shakespeare on the
fountain.
TIE President on his journey through
Indiana and Illinois was fulsome in his
eulogies of Hendricks and in his flat
terry of Dan Voorhees,, but he had not
word to say of Abraham Lincoln,
Stephen A. Douglass, Oliver p. Nor
ton or General Grant. And yet the
mugwumps tell us that the Presidents
speeches have been eminently fair to
all parties and free from any suspicion
of partisan bias.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD asserts that
during the past fifteen months the
amount of money in the hands of the
people has increased upwards of $103,-
900, 900; or, to make it clearer, the gov
eminent holds that amount of cash less
to-day than it did a year and three
months ago. This, of course, includes
the amounts disbursed in anticipating
interest and purchase of bonds. He
says the surplus in the hands of the gov
eminent is now less than S25 100000.
THE New York board of education
has finally decided to make test of
manual training in the public schools.
1t has authorized the introduction of
the system into twelve schools-sx for
boys and six for grls-with the under
standing that it will be made perma-
nent if the results seem to Justify it.
Among the subjects that will be taught
are free-hand drawing, designing in
clay, carpenter work and light sewing.
SCIENTIFICALLY defined, the mug
wump is person who thinks his per-
sonal judgments of men infallible, and
vastly more important than even the
gravest differences between parties in
principles or tendencies. The candidate
of party in the last degree dangerous in
its tendencies and beliefs this person will
support with frantic zeal, because his
| judgment is that personally the candi-
date is a good man. In essence, mug
wumpery is inflated vanity applied to
politics. Tribune.
For the year ending June 30, 1886,
there was an increase of 81 1888 ,0S7 .46
in savings banks deposits in this state.
When the st. Adams Trust Company
failed the discovery was made that a
good many people who claimed to be
too poor to pay their bills had con-
siderable sums on deposit. We hope
that this is not true of many depositors
of the present time. We hear much
about the prevalence of hard times,
but the above figures indicate easy
times for some people.
A GENTLEMAN remarked to us the
other day that it was not surprising
! that the Rural VermOnter was so en-
thusiastic for Senator Edmunds last
year, for he had been informed by a
stakeholder in that concern that the
senator put 81 900 into the thing when
it was established in Montpelier. 1t
| hoo haan tally for
that other horny handed sons of toll
and Jealous friends of the oppressed
farmers who contributed to the same
benefcent enterprise were B. ID. Har-
ris, $1,000; f. Billings, 81, 200; and
one Hale Ga chair manufacturer of Ar
lington), $500.
THE New York Tribune explains one
cause of the Discrimination of public
men for holding the highest office in
the land. 1t consists in the forced re-
tirement from active political or pro-
fessional occupation which has gener-
ally been the lot of the ex-president.
There is a notable exception in the
case of John Quincy Adams, who did
much of his best political work after
to be another Adams of the calibre of
the defender of the right of petition.
The rule has been, and will probably
continue, to shelve our presidents
when the public dismisses them.
THE cranks expect to settle the des-
tiny of the country for years to come.
There is likelihood that they are to
be disappointed. The practical Ameri-
can has learned something during the
past three years which he is sure to
remember when the next election
comes. He has learned, for one thing,
that being crank is lending all his
power to the people he most hates.
This has been a profitable season for
the lasting benefit of the country if it
has taught only that one lesson. The
chances are that most Americans at
the next election will consider it their
chief duty to vote for a candidate whom
they want elected.-1ribome.
PRUDENT men will hesitate before